The desperate search for missing 4-year-old Mohamed Fofana of South Boston came to a tragic end Monday when his body was found.
Massachusetts State Police said one of their marine units spotted the boy on the shoreline of Spectacle Island around 12:30 p.m. Investigators found his blue shoe in the water.
Fofana was with his older sister and grandfather playing at a park on Castle Island around 7 p.m. Sunday near the water when he vanished. His grandfather Soleymane Fofana called 911.
Spectacle Island is directly across the water from Castle Island.
“Troopers from the MSP Special Emergency Response Team and State Police Detective Unit for Suffolk County were ferried to the island by the Marine Unit, and they have confirmed the body to be Mohamed. State Police Crime Scene Services also responded to document the scene of the recovery,” State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said in a statement Monday afternoon.
